Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Guthrie

While we're on the of hard work, I just wanted
to say I always was a man to work.

I was born and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I down and I been out
and I've busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I my way up and I worked my way down. I've
been drunk and I've been sober. I've had times
and I got hijacked and robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way into jail and outta and I woke up
a mornings and I didn't even know where I was at.

But the hardest work I done is when I was trying
to get a worried woman to ease my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna you just about how much hard
work I had to do to get this here woman that I'm
you about.

I shook hands with 97 of her and her blood
relatives and I done the same 86 people that was
her friends and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and done the When several times, as well
as a lot of other things about like this.

I held 125 head of horses, put saddles and bridles
on more than that, some of the craziest,
teams in the whole country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 dogs lick
me all over.

7 I was bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed
all to pieces by water and rattlesnakes on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I carried 314 arm of stoved
wood; 100 of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a good of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 of short cotton,
13 acres of bad corn and cut the weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a I wanted to
her that I was a man and I liked to work

I cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all makes and models, pulled 3 out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her and
and run all kinds of errands.

I the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I joined
11 denominations. I signed up and joined
up for 7 of the best trade unions I could find and
my dues about 6 ahead of time, waded 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked 2
mountain and crossed 3 deserts.

I got the and I got the sun stroke and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year and the
staggers.

I was up for lost and dead about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as as by 3 cars on
the highways and a lotta in peoples'
henhouses.

I been hit and run and run over and
walked on and around and I'm just
settin' now trying to study up what else I
can do to show that woman that I still afraid
of work.